Oh the Boomer "I hate my wife" and now refreshed with AI.

Monty Python's Flying Circus - The Ant, An Introduction (14th December 1969). Michael Palin's a lumberjack and he's okay.

I had fun reading to some Burke Elementary students at the Chicago Public Library today. When the Obama Presidential Center opens next year, we’ll have a new branch of the library for the community to enjoy.

Rather than apologising for his antisemitism, Farage demands the BBC apologise for the antisemitism of Alf Garnett, a fictional character created to satirise antisemitism, who was portrayed by a Jewish man.

Ludwig the Knussknacker and Walter the Weihnachtsman kick off the Christmas preparations

It’s a bit rich the Tories and Reform accusing RR of lying when they pulled a monumental con called Brexit.

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One of our newest treasures: an #earlymodern Catechismus Romanus bound with a 1613 #manuscript student notebook of Jesuit Cornelius a Lapide’s lectures at Leuven. A wonderfully personalized & used book with a doodle of a long-nosed (😉) figure by its unknown owner. #bookhistory #rarebooks 💙📚📜

Evening, blueskyers. I confess I have done very little today apart from steam cleaning the kitchen floor, worktops and the inner glass door of my oven. The glamour never begins. #DiaryOfAReluctantHousePerson

Just been listening to an outstanding address on 'Britain in a Changing World' by Sir John Major at the LSE. I never rated him as a prime minister but like Gordon Brown he has become far more impressive out of office rather than in it. His views on the wretchedness of populism were superbly drawn

Je suis in That Stratford. Pretty place but the stations on WMT need overhauling as does the rolling stock. Birmingham Moor Street station is such a throwback and quite nostalgic

Viviane: 10yr Keir Farage failed on Brexit. Farage failed 8 times to become an MP Farage has failed on Local Councils Farage has failed to tell us who bought his house. Farage has failed to distance himself from Nathan Gill Farage will fail to become PM Farage is a failure

An observation test for you - for your inner 8 year-old “The artist has hidden 12 things in this picture. How many can you find?” Treasure magazine, 1964 Official answers coming soon (Even if you don’t reply, could you please ‘like’ or share this one? 🙏)

Congratulations to new Nobel Peace Prize laureate María Corina Machado for her courageous struggle to bring democracy to Venezuela.

It should inspire those engaged in similar struggles around the world - and remind those of us lucky enough to live in America that we have a solemn responsibility to constantly preserve and defend our own hard-won democratic traditions.

Today on the (award winning) #BetwixtTheSheets, I am talking to the fabulous Elizabeth Lublin about her work on the history of selling sex in Tokugawa Japan. Listen wherever you get your podcasts.

“If Rose and Jack reunited in the afterlife, then what happened to Rose’s husband, the man she married and raised a family with? Did he have to spend eternity watching his wife getting it on with the big boat fling bloke?” “I meant questions about the job” “Oh. What time is our lunch break?”

Marie Antoinette was executed more than 200 years ago. This year alone has seen a major museum exhibition, a new animated film, an ongoing TV series and a new biography about her. Why can't we stop talking about Marie Antoinette? My latest podcast investigates: pod.link/1489560920/e...

Morning all. Photographer John Bulmer, Halifax 1965.

Gardening (Helping at Home, 1961) Artist: Harry Wingfield

Word of the Day is ‘tandsmør’, from Danish. It describes bread that is buttered so thickly you can see tooth marks in it after every bite. Its literal translation? ‘Tooth butter’.

I have made the difficult decision to get out of bed and open the shop. Hopefully you will support me in this tough time. We’ll be here to 5:30 today, tho I can’t guarantee we’ll be awake.

Outstanding photography here! From the Swiss Alps to a solar eclipse: the 2025 Bird Photographer of the Year – in pictures www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Eighty nine years ago today. We need always to stay vigilant about Fascism. #BattleOfCableStreet

🔥 Britain is about to launch a new GCSE in natural history – a vital step toward restoring our knowledge of and respect for the natural world.

Good morning, SundayPixies. For those of you considering getting out and about to look for shots, tomorrow's #SundayPix theme will be "Leaves". We'll use the hashtag #SundayPixLeaves

Later today, I'm going to tell you how a railroad accident in the early 19th century led to a brain tumor being removed decades later! What more could you hope for on a Saturday afternoon?

Are you exhausted by the world? Come take refuge in my weird and wonderful corner of #Bluesky - where I post medical history content that will make you happy to live in 2025! Medieval urine wheels! Opium toothpaste! Cemetery guns! I got it all. I love sharing my passion for this niche subject.

It’s certainly hoolying out there #StormAmy

Energy Secretary Ed Milliband brands Nigel Farage and his allies as: 'Investment-crushing, job-destroying, bill-raising, poverty-driving, science-denying, Putin-appeasing, young people betraying, bunch of ideological extremists’

We are saddened to hear of Dr. Jane Goodall's passing, and so honored to be among the organizations she worked closely with during her long and incredible career.

Here I am in 2020 in the flimsiest, most pitful PPE - like so many other NHS staff, some of whom died from the Covid they caught in their hospitals. Tory peer Michelle Mone - who today lost her legal case & must repay the govt £122m - dares to claim she’s been ‘scapegoated’. What, Michelle? 🧵

Looks like Michelle Mone is going to have to sell that yacht (from Feb 23)

👗 Fabric samples from Marie Antoinette’s court gowns (grand habits), 1784, preserved by her dame d’atour Geneviève d’Ossun Mme d’Ossun was charged with bringing the budget for the queen’s wardrobe into line following some seriously extravagant spending by her predecessor in the 1770s 👗

“I would gently point out to Nigel Farage that before we left the EU we had a returns agreement with every country in the EU. He told the country it would make no difference if we left. He was wrong about that. These are Farage boats in many senses coming across the channel” 👏 PM Keir Starmer

I remember being told that it would take 193 years to reach legal limits for nitrogen dioxide. I decided this was unacceptable. Thanks to the bold policies we put in place, we've managed to do it in nine years - 184 years earlier than expected.

At last Starmer has begun to attack both Farage & Reform. For once he has come across as a leader. Labour needed direction & a message of hope that could go out to the British electorate. We aren't gutless in the UK & we need to face the challenges that have arisen & overcome them. Let's be positive

When are we going to realise that people from foreign lands are not automatically our enemy… but the likes of Michelle Mone and her husband (and those millionaires and billionaires who are making money out of your misery and at your expense) are!

“An example of the town of the future is Coventry.... Traffic and pedestrians are kept apart and the roads are planned to let traffic flow smoothly” (Our Land in the Making, 1966) Artist: Ronald Lampitt

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends towards justice. Except it doesn’t bend on its own—it bends because we pull it in the direction of justice. What keeps me hopeful during times like these is being surrounded by people who are doing just that.

"Mākereti was a trailblazer... Her legacy as an inspiration to many people in Aotearoa New Zealand, the Māori community worldwide, and scholars and students internationally, continues to this day." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Got my performance review.

Citizen Smith - Only Fools and Horses (27th September 1979). Confining your regular characters within an enclosed space is a good sitcom ploy (even better if there's a decent guest star like Wilfrid Brambell added to the mix). And that episode title might be useful later on ....

I, Claudius - Waiting in the Wings (27th September 1976). 'Is there anyone in Rome who has not slept with my daughter?'

The Morecambe and Wise Show (27th September 1974). Andre Previn returns to the show.

This was so incredibly well played - a team for us all to be well and thoroughly proud of. 🐻